Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sentential

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.47 in modern English

Syllables: sen-ten-tial
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Relating to a sentence.

noun

A portion of a sentence or utterance that could act on its own as a complete sentence.

Example Sentences

"Near-synonym: clause"
"Furthermore, children demonstrated that they understood the mapping by elaborating phrasals to sententials, and reducing sententials to phrasals when imitating."
"Scientific, moral, and penal laws are formally universal, sentential propositions. Austin noted the requirement that the commands or expression of desire be general. Han Feizi never restricts faˢᵗᵃⁿᵈᵃʳᵈˢ to either sententials or universal sententials. His account is notoriously about mingⁿᵃᵐᵉ and xingᵖᵘⁿⁱˢʰᵐᵉⁿᵗ."

Etymology

From Latin sententialis.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: sententialis

Inflected Forms

sententials (plural)

Derived Forms

cosentential extrasentential intersentential intrasentential nonsentential presentential prosentential sententialism sententialist sententiality sententially subsentential

Phrases

sentential calculus sentential connective sentential formula sentential logic sentential variable

Frequently Paired Words

sententious

Synonyms

clause

Questions

What does sentential mean?: Relating to a sentence.
Where does sentential come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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